Dragaera

I just had a thought

Mon Dec 16 09:56:21 PST 2002


Matthew Hunter wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 09:30:06AM -0500, Casey Rousseau <casey at trinityhartford.org> wrote:
> > Erik Berman wrote:
> > > "Fellowship of the Rings" (call it what you will, but I can't say that
> > > it is a pale reflection of the novel)
> >
> > FotR is a great flick.  I haven't yet seen the longer edition that's on the
> > Platinum edition DVD.  It may add back the one major character (Tom
> > Bombadil) and two or three chapters that were not in the theatrical release,
> > but this was much closer to the text than Dune.
> 
> Tom Bombadil does not come back; his sequence is rather pointless
> and the movie is already 4 hours long, so I don't blame them.
> 
> > Anyway, psionics are not easy to convey well on the screen.  Not nearly as
> > easy as simply putting the text in italics.
> 
> The obvious way would be to understand how psionics are being
> used as an analog, rather than to directly map them.
> 
> Remember, what Dragaera calls "psionics", we call "cell
> phones"...

Daymar would disagree.  His skill at psionics was a key plot point in
Jhereg.